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Show A Catastrophe. A woman la one or tbe wards In the Rhode Island hospital was Informed In-formed abe had appendicitis and would have to be operated on at once. Much frightened, she reluctantly consented con-sented and was conveyed to tbe op- -erst log room. One of the doctors had commenced to administer the ether and ber eyea were closing languidly, when he discovered be had forgotten to Inquire If she hsd false teeth. He quickly removed the rubber cap. and shaking her slightly, he said: "Have you anything loose In your mouth?" Then, as he made a move to put his band In her mouth, she opened her ees wildly and exclaimed: "Nothing "Noth-ing but my tongue, doctor, and for Sod 'a sake don't cut that out, too!" National Monthly. |